The WMFS Thread (Window Manager From Scratch)

As the wmfs user community is growing, jasonwryan and myself though about the creation of a special thread for that tiling manager. The aim of this thread is to share informations and config files of wmfs to help new user to start with it,

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I have a couple of questions for those who use WMFS. Does it provide a system tray for applets? how about floating windows? Also, how steep is the learning curve if any? I'm looking for a new WM since i'm not really fond of awesome's lua and as far as i'm aware dwm doesn't have a system tray. I would like to thank everyone in advance for their replies.

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Thanks, I didn't see the screenshot earlier my mistake. I like what I see, now I assume the icon you have next to the time is dropbox correct? Also, while the windows are tiled can you have another app floating around at the same time? For example, If i'm using my tablet browsing the internet and have cellwriter pop up moved around and/or closed.

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Hi everyone I'm trying WMFS, I really like it but I'm having a problem with xcompmgr and urxvt. I can't get true transparency in urxvt, I've tried many things within .Xdefaults but simply doesn't work. Googling I just found a thread in archlinux.fr, they have the same issues :\.Hope you can help.

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Hi there,

well, some time ago I discovered the "Window manager from scratch". (http://wmfs.info).

I used Awesome und dwm before but since I disovered wmfs I'm only using it. In my opinion it's a very good mixture of awesome and dwm. I always hated the bloat Config of Awesome (Certainly the lua config offers an enormous set of configurable things, but I don't need them). And dwm was a bit too tiny und uncomfortable for me.

WMFS is awesome, it has a very nice and usable config und all features I need. It also has a systray (dwm does not have one per default), even if I don't use it.

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LukeGee wrote:

WMFS is awesome, it has a very nice and usable config und all features I need. It also has a systray (dwm does not have one per default), even if I don't use it.

Not that I have anything against wmfs, nor am I trying to turn you (or anyone else) away from it, but I wrote a customization of DWM to include launcher and systray without the use of external programs (like dmenu and trayer). You can check it out here.

I still prefer dwm mainly for the look and feel (like little squares for tags with running clients). I find that wmfs and dwm has very similar coding structure, so I may decide to steal some more of wmfs' features where I like them.